Air horns

[Aitch]

Why are bike horns so pathetic? Why not fit airhorns so that even if the car driver can't see the bike, he'll bloody well HEAR it!?

[Coyote]

Or what about those novelty horns!! The ones with those 3 red siren thingees!!

[Aitch]

Do they play la cucaracha?

[Coyote]

Do they play la cucaracha?

I need something I can 'rumba' too

[Holy Roller]

Why are bike horns so pathetic? Why not fit airhorns so that even if the car driver can't see the bike, he'll bloody well HEAR it!?

Several here have some fitted or have had them on their bike. I fitted some twin air horns on my GPZ just make sure they are wired through a relay.

[bugjuice]

if you take the backs off and have them pointing backwards, do they work when you go reeeeeeeeeeally fast...?? could be funny..

[woody68]

I had some on a bike once Bloody good to make the idiots shit themselves.

[FEINT]

how about a Yoshi pipe and just REV.. ?

I have air horns on the car and they are real loud. The air horns just take up alot of space on the bike. You need space to mount the horns and the air pump. Mine air horns tend to blow fuses on the cage as well. I wonder if they will do the same for the bike.

[saiko]

I bought 2 sets of air horns years ago, so I could run one set of horns, with 2 compressors on my VF. It did the trick, my mate could hear me coming, as I came around the corner from his work & tootled it. But... the lights would dim, and revs cut away whenever I tooted. Still a second battery fixed that, although fitting all that crap under small fairings was a bit of a challenge.

[Sniper]

I could imagine. Any idea on the current used to run an air horn pump?

[Wolf]

I used a standard electric horn from a Triumph Herald and it was a definiter improvement over the standard bike horn - a loud, lower pitched "bellow" rather than a pathetic, high-pitched "strangled fart".

Not as loud as an air horn but it was certainly loud enough to be heard inside a cage at a reasonable distance and make them take notice.

If I went for air horns I'd want the full-on 24-volt truck horns - something that reaches into the cager's primitive hindbrain and flicks the ancient synaptic "switch" that's labelled "There's a fucking great truck bearing down on your arse".

I have a suspicion they'd do a little more than just dim the lights and make the engine miss, though.

[inlinefour]

Had the running gear for all the siren and lights. I hooked up a massive halogen lamp and put it on top of the headlight. I also put some rather large air horns and compressor on it that I think came out of a small truck. Made a blardy loud noise and I allways made sure I was wearing my helmet when setting it off...

[Wolf]

I also put some rather large air horns and compressor on it that I think came out of a small truck. Made a blardy loud noise and I allways made sure I was wearing my helmet when setting it off...

Too bad about the other poor bastards within six blocks.

What'd you do, mount 'em on the back where the radio used to sit?

[Hitcher]

Do they play la cucaracha?

Or Greensleeves...

[Zed]

Why are bike horns so pathetic? Why not fit airhorns so that even if the car driver can't see the bike, he'll bloody well HEAR it!?

Yes I agree, the standard microphone type horns fitted to bikes are ridiculous, the only time I use my rude sounding one nowadays is when I toot someone goodbye!

I used to sell air horns - they are a great idea for a motorcycle if you can find space to fit them? If you're daring you can go the whole hog and get musical ones...the Cavalry Charge, Dixie (Dukes of Hazard), Stranger in the Night, and Bridge on the River Kwai were some of the tunes that used to be available . Personally I'd stick with the twin or triple single blast ones .